Mary Gardiner wrote:
> While this may be true for the original poster, who given that they are
> posting to the SLUG newsgroup at all almost certainly has more skills
> than I did when I started uni, I don't regret going to uni for the
> following reasons:
> * I had no "IT skills" to speak of when I left high school and would
> * In particular, I had no programming skills and would now most likely
> * I wanted other skills that 3 years experience was unlikely to give me
> * It is likely that I would still be living in my parent's home town if
> * There are a lot of IT things I would have never used, or used much
> * I'm at least considering a research career, for which an
uni helps you to acquire the ability to reason and research.
with that you can progress into field of endeavour.
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Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited
I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is
just a mediocre brain, something like the president of American Telephone
and Telegraph Company.
-- Alan Turing on the possibilities of a thinking machine, 1943.
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